Web Essay: Sad end for neglected horse

12:25 PM,
Feb. 25, 2013

Written by

SHANE SIA and DEBBY KELL
Guest Essayists

Early on Dec. 30, a vet was forced to euthanize a female stray horse in the back yard of the good samaritans who found it and cared for it all day. No one seemed to recognized the horse, who it may belong to, or the J with arrow brand on it. It was friendly early on, but later bit the hand of one of the good samaritans.

The horse was starving, suffering from exposure and, given the significant snowfall the region had just days earlier, was desparately searching for food; it's lips were bleeding from trying to eat bark from a nearby tree. It also appeared to ...